Re: feature request

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-01-17 03:35:35 +0100, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> The standard 'tee' utility does something like what you want: it copies its
> standard input both to a file and to standard output. So if you want to save
> the output of a command, you pipe it into 'tee' like this:
> 
>     somecommand | tee OUTPUT
> 
> That's not a variable, but maybe it's close enough for you. Instead of
> $OUTPUT, you can use $(< OUTPUT).
> 
> What it would take to implement your feature request to make this permanent
> and transparent?

Something like that would be nice, but this may also depend on the
command. I have written some code some that some commands are automatically
piped to "less" (via an alias), for instance.

However, note that with a pipe, there can be issues due to buffering.
If zsh could run the command in a pty, this could be better.

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